{"id":28290,"date":"2012-03-20T10:09:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=28290"},"modified":"2012-03-20T10:09:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T17:09:11","slug":"israel-ramps-up-war-rhetoric-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/03\/20\/israel-ramps-up-war-rhetoric-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Ramps Up War-Rhetoric on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-032012\/2012_03_20_lowenstein.MP3\">this segment<\/a>  | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-032012\/2012_03_20_uprising.mp3\"> entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/benjamin_netanyahu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The killing of four Jews in France yesterday by a man feared to be a serial murderer spurred strong words from Tel Aviv and warnings from the Israeli Parliament that the shooting was a sign of growing anti-Semitism. A teacher at a Jewish school in France and three children were shot dead by a man who officials also believe killed three soldiers from North Africa this month in two separate incidents. Today Israeli officials lashed out at EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton for her words of condolence in which she mourned tragic circumstances facing children around the world including, &#8220;what is happening in Gaza and in different parts of the world.&#8221; In condemning her remarks and urging her to &#8220;reverse&#8221; them Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said, &#8220;The children Ashton should be talking about are those in the south of Israel who live in fear after the rocket attacks coming from the Gaza Strip.&#8221; Tensions between Gaza and Israel are high after days of cross border attacks last week left an estimated 25 Palestinians dead and many wounded on both sides. The fighting began when Israel assassinated the leader of the Popular Resistance Committees group of Gaza on March 9th. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week escalated his rhetoric on Iran, blaming Tehran for supporting fighters in Gaza and making the provocative statement, &#8220;Gaza is Iran.&#8221; British Prime Minister David Cameron said last week he did not see justification for an Israeli strike on Iran and the US has not been publicly supportive. Netanyahu also said a lack of support would not deter his country from defending itself, and stated, &#8220;Israel has never left its fate to others, not even the best of its friends.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Jennifer Lowenstein, a political activist and a faculty associate in Middle East Studies through the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. She is also assistant programming director at the A. E. Havens Center, a division of the Department of Sociology also at the UW-Madison, and she is the Secretary and Treasurer of The Chomsky Fund<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this segment | entire program The killing of four Jews in France yesterday by a man feared to be a serial murderer spurred strong words from Tel Aviv and warnings from the Israeli Parliament that the shooting was a sign of growing anti-Semitism. A teacher at a Jewish school in France and three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}